Describe developmental domains
Our page on developmental domains aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of developmentally appropriate practices for infants and toddlers with various needs, including developmental, emotional, cognitive, language, and physical. This resource is especially valuable for those in the early childhood education and child care center domains.Trainings incorporating this outcome
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- Define developmental domains.
- Demonstrate an understanding of developmentally appropriate practices for infants and toddlers with developmental, emotional, cognitive, language and/or physical needs
- Demonstrate an understanding of developmentally appropriate practices for infants and toddlers with developmental, emotional, cognitive, language and/or physical needs.
- Define active play in the early childhood classroom and describe its benefits for young children.
- Give examples of developmentally appropriate musical activities for children.
- Describe ways to analyze classrooms for an anti-bias approach.
- Describe how language is one of the many ways through which culture affects development.
- Describe strategies to incorporate mathematics into teaching practices.
- Describe the importance of monitoring the family child care environment for potential risks.
- Describe infant/toddler nutritional needs
- Define differentiated instruction in early childhood education and describe how it may look in the classroom.
- Describe Piaget’s sensorimotor and preoperational stages of cognitive development.
- Describe the primary learning centers and their components.
- List community resources, support, and referrals for developmental disabilities.
- Explains how materials and experiences support the developmental needs of young children.
- Describe the components of emergency preparedness in the child care setting.
- Describe infant/toddler nutritional needs.
- Explain the importance of providing a variety of developmentally appropriate activities, including play, to support the science skills of all children.
- Describe how to use the Strengthening Families Self-Assessment for program improvement.
- Describe new methods to increase the positive emotional climate within a childcare program.
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